Archive: Kubecon Archives - Root Level Technology

As we wrap up this year’s KubeCon, Braden finishes up his experience by starting his day started with Keynote: Smooth Operator♪: Large Scale Automated Storage with Kubernetes – Celina Ward, Software Engineer & Matt Schallert, Site Reliability Engineer, Uber. “It was a little weird to have 2 back to back keynotes talking about operators (previous keynote: Kubernetes: Living Up to the Hype – Janet Kuo, Software Engineer, Google),” says Braden. “But, M3DB was a good case study of how moving to K8s and using operators helped. None of this was new info to me except M3DB.” There were comparisons to large-scale Prometheus installs like Cortex or Thanos, which are based on Prometheus and have large communities and integrate […]

The first day of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon was an exciting one. Especially for our cloud staff engineer, Braden Wright, who is representing Root Level Technology at the event. Braden attended a few keynotes and provided feedback for a few talks. Don’t Forget the Data When Embarking on Your Journey to Service Meshes – Shriram Rajagopalan, VMware Braden mentions the talk “wasn’t very good. Basically, a need to know about external data and need a way to control who accesses. Reminds me of what Palo Alto was addressing with DataCenters with NGFW’s.” Highly Available Kubernetes Clusters – Best Practices – Meaghan Kjelland & Karan Goel, Google. Braden wasn’t a fan of this talk either. “Only […]